Re: how to install vmware workstation
- From: Chris Cohen <kildau-ml@xxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:04:51 +0200
On Wednesday 30 April 2008 15:49:38 Clayton wrote:
I just switched to Kubuntu on my desktop and everything works
great. But one thing I really miss is a package of
vmware-workstation or at least something that will build one (as
with google-earth). I don't want to install using the tgz...
Am I missing something here?
The tgz as provided from VMWare works fine. It has a shell script
installer that you launch and answer the questions.
But... as usual with VMWare, it will only install on/with kernels
that were current at the time of the release of the version of VMWare
that you are using.... so... you need to use the Any-Any patch, and
copy a couple of libs around.
So.. assuming you have VMWare Workstation, start the VMWare install
shell script. ( sudo ./vmware-install.pl ) and answer the
questions. When it gets to the point where it asks you if it should
launch the vmware-config.pl script answer No.
Download the AnyAny update patch from here:
http://technologytales.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/vmware-any-any-
update-116.gz
Unzip it and run the installer ( sudo ./runme.pl ) Answer any
questions it asks you. It should offer to run the vmware-config.pl
script as part of the patch. Answer Yes, and follow the prompts of
the config script. The defaults should be fine. It will compile the
bits it needs for you... you should be able to just sit back and
watch it, only needing to nudge it when it asks a new question.
If you use the VMWare management console you will need to do one
additional step...
sudo cp /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/
sudo cp /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/
This is what I did to get my VMWare Workstation and Player installed.
Works fine.
Thanks for your detailed install instructions.
Though it isn't what I wanted to hear :) Coming from Gentoo I had
vmware-workstation in my package system which always gave me the
latest "stable" version automatically. I am sure the manual way will
work fine (and I will do it your way as soon as I sent this message),
but I will have to do all these steps after every vmware upgrade...
Note: VirtualBox is a lot easier to use and install (the Open SourceI would really like to switch to VirtualBox. But as far as I know,
Edition is even in the Ubuntu repositories, and the full release
binary from VirtualBox is available in DEB for Ubuntu from
VirtualBox.org), and in most (but not all cases) an equal choice... I
use it generally more than VMWare, but VMWare still does a few things
better... so in those cases VMWare still has a home on my computer.
VirtualBox doesn't support 64-Bit guests now which is a "must have" for
me.
Ah, btw.. is there something like modules-rebuild for Ubuntu?
(Recompiles every 3rd party module, e.g. after a kernel upgrade...)
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Thanks
Chris
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